The Greenville County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding a stolen historical marker.

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Deputies said they got a call Tuesday afternoon that the Willie Earle historical marker located at Highway 124 and Old Bramlett Road had been stolen.

Investigators say the historical marker was last seen approximately 2 to 4 weeks ago.

In 1947 Earle was arrested as a suspect in the murder of a white cab driver. After being thrown in jail an angry mob of all white men took Earle out, beat him, and then shot him to death on Bramlett Road. The marker was placed there to remember his death commonly known as South Carolina's last lynching.

Anyone with information about the stolen marker is asked to call the Sheriff's Office or Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.